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Hugh Pentecost (1903–1989)

Author of Murder in High Places

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About the Author

Includes the names: Hugh Pentecost, Hugh Pentacost, Judson Philips, Judson Phillips, Pentikost Kh'iu, Judson P. Philips, Hugh Judson as Pentecost Philips

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Series

Works by Hugh Pentecost

Murder in High Places (1983) 58 copies
Murder In Luxury (1981) 48 copies
With Intent To Kill (1982) 44 copies
The Cannibal Who Overate (1962) 44 copies
Death After Breakfast (1978) 40 copies
Time of Terror (1974) 37 copies
Remember to Kill Me (1964) 32 copies
The Fourteen Dilemma (1976) 32 copies
Random Killer (1979) 30 copies
Nightmare Time (1986) 30 copies
Birthday, Deathday (1972) 28 copies
Bargain with Death (1974) 27 copies
The Deadly Joke (1971) 26 copies
Beware Young Lovers (1980) 26 copies
The Gilded Nightmare (1972) 25 copies
The Golden Trap (1967) 24 copies
The Evil That Men Do (1966) 23 copies
Girl Watcher's Funeral (1969) 21 copies
Murder Round the Clock (1985) 18 copies
Walking Dead Man (1973) 18 copies
Murder Goes Round and Round (1988) 18 copies
The Homicidal Horse (1979) 17 copies
The Shape of Fear (1964) 16 copies
Shadow of Madness (1950) 15 copies
Death by Fire (1986) 12 copies
Murder Out of Wedlock (1983) 12 copies
A plague of violence (A Red badge novel of suspense) (1970) 12 copies
Cream of the Crime (1962) — Editor — 12 copies
The Day the Children Vanished (1976) 11 copies
Murder as Usual (1977) 11 copies
Cancelled in Red (1939) 11 copies
The Party Killer (1985) 10 copies
Murder Sweet and Sour (1965) 10 copies
The Girl with Six Fingers (1969) 10 copies
The Obituary Club (1960) 10 copies
Dead Woman of the Year (1968) 10 copies
The Laughter Trap (1973) 9 copies
Kill and Kill Again (1987) 9 copies
Substitute Victim (1984) 9 copies
The Sniper (1965) 9 copies
Whisper Town (1964) 8 copies
The Champagne Killer (1972) 8 copies
Murder Clear Track Fast (1962) 8 copies
The Death Mask (1980) 8 copies
Die after Dark (1976) 8 copies
Hot Summer Killing (1968) 8 copies
Hide Her from Every Eye (1974) 8 copies
I'll Sing at Your Funeral (1942) 7 copies
Sow Death, Reap Death (1981) 7 copies
Pattern for Terror (1990) 7 copies
Deadly Trap (1978) 6 copies
Past, Present & Murder (1982) 6 copies
The 24th Horse (1940) 6 copies
Where the Snow Was Red (1946) 6 copies
Thursday's Folly (1967) 6 copies
The Copycat Killers: An Uncle George Mystery Novel (1983) 6 copies
A dead ending. (1962) 6 copies
The Judas Freak (1974) 6 copies
The Battles of Jericho (2008) 5 copies
The Beautiful Dead (1973) 5 copies
Murder as the Curtain Rises (1981) 5 copies
Around dark corners: A collection of mystery stories, (1970) 5 copies
Death Delivers a Postcard (1941) 5 copies
Target for Tragedy (1982) 5 copies
Death is a Dirty Trick (1980) 5 copies
The tarnished angel (1963) 5 copies
Honeymoon with Death (1975) 5 copies
Wings of Madness (1977) 4 copies
The Larkspur Conspiracy (1985) 4 copies
OBRAS SELECTAS - EL ÁNGEL DE NEW MAVERICK - DIANA SOLITARIA - EL ASESINO DEL CHAMPAÑA - ¿QUIÉN HA VISTO A JEREMY… (1975) 4 copies
Nightmare at Dawn (1970) 4 copies
Don't Drop Dead Tomorrow (1971) 4 copies
Only the rich die young (1964) 4 copies
The Brass Chills (Inspector Luke Bradley) (Volume 4) (2016) 4 copies
Memory of Murder (1947) 3 copies
The Vanishing Senator (1972) 3 copies
Cat and Mouse (1944) 3 copies
The Creeping Hours (1974) 3 copies
Backlash (1976) 3 copies
Why Murder? (1980) 3 copies
The Twisted People (1973) 3 copies
Murder in Marble (1944) 3 copies
Five Roads to Death (1977) 3 copies
The Kingdom of Death (1961) 3 copies
The Power Killers (1975) 3 copies
Murder Arranged (1979) 2 copies
Chinese Nightmare (1947) 2 copies
The Hawk 2 copies
Choice of violence (1961) 2 copies
Mystery at a Country Inn (1979) (1979) 2 copies
Morte ao Anoitecer 2 copies
Kabine 11. Das hat ein Cop zu wissen. Moderne Kriminalgeschichten (1973) 2 copies
The Fourth Mystery Book: Six Short Mysteries (1942) 2 copies
Fifth Mystery Book (1944) 2 copies
The lonely target, (1959) 2 copies
The Steel Palace (1900) 2 copies
Escape a Killer (1972) 2 copies
Red War (1936) (1936) 2 copies
The deadly friend (1962) 2 copies
Døden i tusmørke (1977) 2 copies
The Price of Silence (1984) 2 copies
The Black Glass City (1965) (1965) 2 copies
The Dead Can't Love 2 copies
Moord achter de coulissen (1959) 2 copies
Ohnivý kříž 2 copies
Week-End To Kill and Secret Corridors (2008) — Author — 2 copies
The Dead Man's Tale (Quick Reader 145) (1945) 2 copies
Destruction, Incorporated 1 copy
Vandals Inc. 1 copy
The Copper Vat Murders 1 copy
Rubber Mask Returns 1 copy
The Whispering Death 1 copy
The Shadow of the Enemy 1 copy
Los muertos no pueden amar (1983) 1 copy
Da Døden Lo (1993) 1 copy
Sort dilemma : en Peter Styles historie 1 copy
Die Macht von morgen. (1982) 1 copy
Tote können nicht mehr lieben. (1974) 1 copy
The Death Syndicate (1938) (1941) 1 copy
The Fourteenth Trump (1942) 1 copy
A murder arranged. / : the latest Peter Styles novel, in which he is aided by a new and colourful detective, Steiger 1 copy
A Murder Arranged (1978) 1 copy
Walk a Crooked Mile (1975) 1 copy
Kuuman kesän murhat (1970) 1 copy
The Laughter Trap / the Departure of Mr. Gaudette / Six Who Ran (1964) 1 copy
AS ASAS DA LOUCURA 1 copy
Signal for Disaster 1 copy
Death Delivers a Postcard (1939) (1941) 1 copy
Hold'em, girls!: The intelligent woman's guide to men and football, (1936) 1 copy
The Fifth Column Marches 1 copy
A SOMBRA DO MEDO 1 copy
The Flaming Cobra 1 copy
Hugh Pentecost SHADOW OF MADNESS 1950 Red Badge Mystery DJ (1777) 1 copy
Päev, mil lapsed kadusid 1 copy
delitti eccellenti 1 copy
Ellery Queen's Mysterie Magazine 5 1 copy
Jericho and the Painting Clue 1 copy
JULIAN QUIST :TRAPPOLA ASSURDA MONDADORI 1981 1 copy
AMEAÇA INVISÍVEL 1 copy
Remember to Kill Me / The Grey Beginning / The Bloody Book of Law 1 copy
Death Wears a Copper Necktie 1 copy
Oculta a todas las miradas 1 copy
Todesgrüsse vom Pier 5. Kriminalroman. (1960) 1 copy
The Compleat Adventures of the Park Avenue Hunt Club (2006) 1 copy
THE PRICE OF SILENCE - EMILY DICKINSON IS DEAD - A LEGACY FROM TENERIFE 1 copy
Death in Studio 2 (Pocket Book Storyteller Weekly May 31, 1952) 1 copy
En nat i august (1974) 1 copy
Manden med de grønne briller (1974) 1 copy
En Judas i vor midte (1975) 1 copy
Det forkerte lig (1971) 1 copy
The Works or Nothing 1 copy
Le tout pour le tout (1962) 1 copy
Piken med seks fingrer 1 copy
The Day The Children Vanished [short story] 1 copy
Remember to Kill Me (1985) 1 copy
Death Polls A Vote 1 copy
The Green Terror 1 copy
Death's Witness 1 copy
Death Wears Green 1 copy
Death Walks the Avenue 1 copy
Horse Opera 1 copy
The League of Disaster 1 copy
The Tiger's Trap 1 copy
The Murder of a Patriot 1 copy
The False Face Murders 1 copy
The Bride of Murder 1 copy
The Man with the Half-Dead Face 1 copy
Murder Castle 1 copy
The Crooked Circle 1 copy
The Masked Jury 1 copy
Killer's Last Stand 1 copy
Men About to Die 1 copy
The Assassins 1 copy
Reign of Terror 1 copy
The Return of the Hawk 1 copy
The Prince of Plunder 1 copy
The Key to Millions 1 copy
The Man in the Rubber Mask 1 copy
Trap for the Hunters 1 copy
Murder Under the Knife 1 copy
"Pereevshii liudoed", "Oborotni", "Liubitel' shampanskogo" - tom 1 "Dom na gore", "Po krivoi dorozhke", "Uberegite ee… 1 copy
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Associated Works

Police Procedurals (1985) — Contributor — 90 copies
Fifty Best Mysteries (1991) — Contributor — 72 copies
Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels (1987) — Contributor — 58 copies
Some Things Strange and Sinister (1972) — Contributor — 50 copies
All but Impossible! An Anthology of Locked Room and Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of… (1981) — Contributor — 29 copies
Ellery Queen's Anthology #30: Masters of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1975) (1975) — Contributor — 29 copies
Manhattan Mysteries (1987) — Contributor — 26 copies
The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries (2019) — Contributor; Contributor — 24 copies
Murder at the Races (1995) — Contributor — 20 copies
Ellery Queen's Mystery Mix (1962) — Contributor — 19 copies
Lethal Black Book (1965) — Contributor — 18 copies
Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers (1989) — Contributor — 17 copies
Masterpieces of Mystery: More from the Sixties (1979) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Queen's Awards: Sixth Series (1953) — Contributor — 15 copies
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Contributor — 14 copies
To Be Read Before Midnight (1963) 14 copies
The Tenth Life | A Thief or Two | Five Roads to Death (1977) 9 copies
Murder for the Millions (1946) — Contributor — 7 copies
Maigret Sets a Trap | Be a Good Boy | Birthday, Deathday (1972) 7 copies
20 Great Tales of Murder (1951) — Contributor — 6 copies
Murder By Proxy | A Murder Arranged | Counterstroke (1978) — Contributor — 6 copies
Summer of the Dragon | Why Murder? | Live Bait (1980) — Contributor — 5 copies
Trouble for Tallon, Fall From Grace, Murder in Luxury (1981) — Contributor — 4 copies
Innocent Blood | Beware Young Lovers | They Stay for Death (1980) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Blond Baboon | Scared to Death | Death After Breakfast (1978) 4 copies
Proceed to Judgement | Visa to Limbo | The Homicidal Horse (1980) 4 copies
The Judas Freak | The Long Fuse | Bats Fly up for Inspector Ghote (1974) 4 copies
Birdcage, Flyaway, Random Killer (1979) — Contributor — 4 copies
Enemy in the House | A Dead Ending | Repent at Leisure — Contributor — 4 copies
Hide Her From Every Eye | The Voice | Girl on the Run (1966) 4 copies
Early Autumn | Death is a Dirty Trick | Count on the Saint (1981) 4 copies
Death Wish | Appointment With Yesterday | The Champagne Killer (1972) 4 copies
The Use of Disguise in Crime Detection, a Monograph By Sherlock Holmes — Introduction — 3 copies
Beware Young Lovers | Murder in the White House | Maigret's Rival (1980) 3 copies
Nightmare Time | Gideon's Way | Lion in the Valley (1986) — Contributor — 3 copies
Murder Goes Round and Round | Cover-Up Story | A Crime Remembered (1988) 3 copies
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1976/10 (1976) — Contributor — 3 copies
American Murders: 11 Rediscovered Short Novels from the American Magazine, 1934-1954 (1986) — Contributor — 3 copies
Deadly Trap | Wait for What Will Come | The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) — Contributor — 2 copies
A Magnum of Mysteries (1963) — Contributor — 2 copies
Argosy, Volume 285 Number 1, October 1, 1938 (1938) — Contributor — 2 copies
Target for Tragedy | Skeleton in Search of a Closet | A Rush on the Ultimate (1982) 2 copies
Argosy, December 10, 1938 (1938) — Contributor — 2 copies
Nye detektivhistorier fra hele verden — Author, some editions — 2 copies
Argosy, December 3, 1938 (1938) — Contributor — 2 copies
Message from Hong Kong | Figurehead | Hot Summer Killing 2 copies
High Stakes | Winifred | The Fourteen Dilemma (1976) 2 copies
The Etruscan Bull | The Brass Rainbow | The Girl with Six Fingers (1969) 2 copies
Maigret Has Doubts | With Intent to Kill | Thinner Than Water (1982) 2 copies
Honeymoon With Death | A Multitude Of Sins | The White Lie Assignment (1975) — Contributor — 2 copies
Kill and Kill Again | Reel Murder | A Deceptive Clarity (1987) 2 copies
The Case of the Blonde Bonanza | Jade for a Lady | The Cannibal Who Overate (1962) 2 copies
Sow Death, Reap Death | Dearest Enemy | The Golden Sabre (1981) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Beautiful Dead | The Thirteenth Trick | Jet Stream (1973) 2 copies
Remember to Kill Me | The Grey Beginning | The Bloody Book of Law (1984) 2 copies
The Case of the Bigamous Spouse | Missing, Presumed Dead | Choice of Violence (1961) 2 copies
Murder Round the Clock | Pearlhanger | Death Swap 2 copies
The Golden Trap | Along a Dark Path | Weave a Wicked Web (1967) 2 copies
Family Fortune | Die After Dark | A Death in the Life (1976) 2 copies
15 Short Surprise Stories (1944) — Contributor — 2 copies
Maigret's Dead Man | Only the Rich Die Young | The Yellow Villa (1964) 2 copies
Murder As the Curtain Rises | The Rockefeller Gift | A Killing in Antiques 1 copy
The Case of the Mischievous Doll | The Unquiet Sleep | The Tarnished Angel (1963) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dead Woman of the Year | Money for the Taking | The Murder of the Dainty-Footed Model (1968) 1 copy
Ding Dong Bell | The Obituary Club | Deadly Purpose (1958) 1 copy
The Deadly Joke | Witch Miss Seeton | The Gravy Train (1971) 1 copy
The Case of the Horrified Heirs | Is There a Traitor in the House | The Shape of Fear (1964) 1 copy
Girl Watcher's Funeral | The Camelot Caper | The Deadly Isles (1969) — Contributor — 1 copy
R. S. V. P. Murder | The Twisted People | Come Out, Come Out (1965) 1 copy
Death by Fire | The Mystery Lady | Beyond the Grave (1986) 1 copy
Pattern for Terror | Broken Consort | Angel of Death (1990) 1 copy
The Man with Two Clocks | The Power Killers | Meet a Dark Stranger 1 copy
In Connection with Kilshaw | Bargain with Death | Ripley's Game 1 copy
Thursday's Folly | The Visitor | The Trouble With Tycoons (1967) 1 copy
Banker | Murder in High Places | The Terrible Tide (1983) — Contributor — 1 copy
The Evil That Men Do, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, No Peace for the Wicked (1966) — Contributor — 1 copy
The Lonely Target | Walking Shadow | There's Always a Payoff (1959) 1 copy
Maigret At the Coroner's | Death Under Par | Death Mask (1981) 1 copy
The Price of Silence | Emily Dickinson is Dead | A Legacy From Tenerife (1984) 1 copy
Murder Sweet And Sour | The Crime And The Crystal | The House On Plymouth Street and Other Stories (1980) 1 copy
Walking Dead Man | The Theft of Magna Carta | Death in the Snow (1973) 1 copy
A Plague of Violence | Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate | The Green Hell Treasure (1971) — Contributor — 1 copy
Backlash, Where Helen Lies, The Kingsford Mark (1976) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Obras selectas by Hugh Pentecost
El Ángel de New Maverick
Diana solitaria
El asesino del campaña
¿Quién ha visto a Jeremy Trail?
El caníbal de comió demasiado
 
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jjuancho | Aug 24, 2023 |
The Deadly Joke (The Pierre Chambrun Mysteries) by Hugh Pentecost
Chambrun's hotel is smashed up and murders all over it. His political friend may be the target, or the perpetrator? I thought I knew who the killer was up to the last page, but I don't think the author played fair this time. Seems like he pulled the killer out of nowhere with no clues.

As always, I do enjoy the hotel setting and Chambrun himself.
 
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MrsLee | 1 other review | Mar 23, 2023 |
Birthday, Deathday (The Pierre Chambrun Mysteries) by Hugh Pentecost
The Beaumont is overrun by the CIA, FBI, and Chinese diplomats and their security. All trying to prevent the murder of a monster. This was not so much a mystery of solving the crime, as it was how the crime was going to be committed. I liked it, but the political details were hard to read, involving torture, gang rape, etc.
 
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MrsLee | Feb 12, 2023 |
Girl Watcher's Funeral (The Pierre Chambrun Mysteries) by Hugh Pentecost
Good story. Greek pirate/financier/philanthropist who is Chambrun's friend, dies in the hotel. This involves the world of high fashion in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Very hip and mod, if not very emancipated.
 
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MrsLee | 1 other review | Feb 12, 2023 |
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